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Consumers are dying today in part because they continue to eat dead foods that are killed in the microwave. They take a perfectly healthy piece of raw food, loaded with vitamins and natural medicines, then nuke it in the microwave and destroy most of its nutrition. Humans are the only animals on the planet who destroy the nutritional value of their food before eating it. All other animals consume food in its natural, unprocessed state, but humans actually go out of their way to render food nutritionally worthless before eating it. No wonder humans are the least healthy mammals on the planet.

In Russia, microwave ovens were banned in 1976 because of their negative health consequences as many studies were conducted on their use. The ban was lifted after Perestroika in the early 90’s.Numerous documents can be found online relating to this subject.The invention of the microwave and its mass adoption by the population coincides with the onset of obesity in developed nations around the world. Not only did the microwave make it convenient to eat more obesity-promoting foods, it also destroyed much of the nutritional content of those foods, leaving consumers in an ongoing state of malnourished overfeeding. In other words, people eat too many calories but not enough real nutrition. The result is, of course, what we see today: Epidemic rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, depression, kidney failure, liver disorders and much more.

These diseases are all caused by a combination of malnutrition and exposure to toxic chemicals (plus other factors such as emotional trauma, lack of exercise, etc.). Microwaves make malnutrition virtually automatic, and being exposed to toxic chemicals is easy to accomplish by simply eating processed foods (which are universally manufactured with the addition of toxic chemicals that act as preservatives, colorings, flavor enhancers and so on).

Microwaving is, technically, a form of food irradiation. I find it interesting that people who say that would never eat "irradiated" food have no hesitation about microwaving their food. It's the same thing (just a different wavelength of radiation). In fact, microwaves were originally called "radar ranges." Sounds strange today, doesn't it? But when microwaves were first introduced in the 1970's, they were proudly advertised as radar ranges. You blast your food with high-intensity radar and it gets hot. This was seen as some sort of space-age miracle in the 1970's. Perhaps someday an inventor will create a food heating device that does not radically alter the nutritional value of the foods in the process, but I'm not holding my breath on this one. Probably the best way to heat foods right now is to simply use a countertop toaster oven, and keep the heat as low as possible.

The microwave does work as advertised, by the way. It makes your food hot. But the mechanism by which heat is produced causes internal damage to the delicate molecular structures of vitamins and phytonutrients. Minerals are largely unaffected, however, so you'll still get the same magnesium, calcium and zinc in microwaved foods as you would in non-microwaved foods, but the all-important B vitamins, anthocyanins, flavonoids and other nutritional elements are easily destroyed by microwave ovens.

The microwave is the appliance of the living dead. People who use the microwave on a regular basis are walking down a path towards degenerative disease and a lifelong battle with obesity. The more you use the microwave, the worse your nutritional state gets, and the more likely you are to be diagnosed with various diseases and put on pharmaceuticals which, of course, will create other health problems that lead to a grand spiraling nosedive of health.

Do yourself a favor: Toss your microwave, or donate it to some charity. It's much easier to avoid using the microwave if you don't have one around. It will clear up counter space, save you electricity and greatly enhance your dietary habits. When you need to heat something, heat it in a toaster oven or a stovetop pan (avoid Teflon and non-stick surfaces, of course). Better yet, strive to eat more of a raw, unprocessed diet. That where you'll get the best nutrition anyway. Buy yourself a Vita-Mix and blend up some smoothies. It's faster than microwaving foods are far healthier. (See my book Superfood Smoothies for recipes).

I drink a superfood smoothie every morning, and I haven't used a microwave in years. Protecting health is our own responsibility, and it's up to us all to make informed decisions about how we buy, prepare and consume our foods. You have to save yourself.

Here are some of recent scientific findings on microwaving food:

1. Microwaved foods lose 60 ~ 90% of the vital-energy field and microwaving accelerates the structural disintegration of foods.

4. Microwaving alters food chemistry which can lead to malfunctions in the lymphatic system and degeneration of the body’s ability to protect itself against cancerous growths.

5. Microwaved foods lead to a higher percentage of cancerous cells in the bloodstream.

6. Microwaving altered the breakdown of elemental substances when raw, cooked, or frozen vegetables were exposed for even a very short time and free radicals were formed.

7. Microwaved foods caused stomach and intestinal cancerous growths, a general degeneration of peripheral cellular tissues, and a gradual breakdown of the digestive and excretive systems in a statistically high percentage of people.

14. Due to chemical alterations within food substances, malfunctions occurred in the lymphatic system, causing degeneration of the immune systems’ capacity to protect itself against cancerous growth.

15. The unstable catabolism of micro-waved foods altered their elemental food substances, leading to disorders in the digestive system.

16. Those ingesting micro-waved foods showed a statistically higher incidence of stomach and intestinal cancers, plus a general degeneration of peripheral cellular tissues with a gradual breakdown of digestive and excretory system function.

17. Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the nutritional value of all foods studied, particularly: * A decrease in the bioavailability of B-complex vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotrophics * Destruction of the nutritional value of nucleoproteins in meats * Lowering of the metabolic activity of alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides and nitrilosides (all basic plant substances in fruits and vegetables) * Marked acceleration of structural disintegration in all foods.

Mike from Natural News.com says,On Microwaves: "The rise of widespread nutritional deficiencies in the western world correlates almost perfectly with the introduction of the microwave oven. This is no coincidence. Microwave ovens heat food through a process of creating molecular friction, but this same molecular friction quickly destroys the delicate molecules of vitamins and phytonutrients (plant medicines) naturally found in foods. One study showed that microwaving vegetables destroys up to 97% of the nutritional content (vitamins and other plant-based nutrients that prevent disease, boost immune function and enhance health).”“In other words, eating raw broccoli provides you with natural anti-cancer medicine that’s extremely effective at halting the growth of cancer tumours. But microwaving that broccoli destroys the anti-cancer nutrients, rendering the food “dead” and nutritionally depleted. There’s even some evidence to suggest that microwaving destroys the natural harmony in water molecules, creating an energetic pattern of chaos in the water found in all foods. In fact, the common term of “nuking” your food is coincidentally appropriate: Using a microwave is a bit like dropping a nuclear bomb on your food, then eating the fallout. (You don’t actually get radiation from eating microwaved foods, however. But you don’t get much nutrition, either.)”

So. if you are going to use a microwave oven, it is suggested that you set and walk out of the kitchen where practical. The American FDA advised “don’t stand in front of a microwave for long periods of time”. There is a lot of researching being conducted into microwave oven and the effects that it may have on human bodies. Final studies have not been released as yet, but if the above is any indication to the negative affects on food, I can only imagine the effects on the human body. So if you don’t have to use a microwave oven, then don’t. Even if it is to preserve the quality and nutritional value of your food."

Do you and your family a huge life saving favor, throw away the microwave!. Spend a little longer preparing a meal, live a longer healthier life! - Zach R.

Russia does not allow ANY microwaves to be sold today in their country. You cannot buy one or even import one to their country. I threw mine away after owning one since 1974. My knees and lower back were bothering me quite a lot. Same with my 25 y/o son's joints. Once the oven was in the trash within a month both he and I were feeling much better with no sore joints. I suggest everyone throw their oven out if they want to live a joint pain free life.

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Mark

10/26/2013 11:30am

You're a liar. Microwave ovens are sold all over Russia.

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melinda

01/25/2014 5:49am

I totally agree.

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Italics Mine

04/27/2012 12:53pm

I've never liked the microwave for cooking, and never understood the concept of how it could jumble up molecules to make them heat in an instant and somehow be conducive to health. But my partner frequently heats a beanbag pad several minutes for his chronic back pain, and it works great for that purpose.

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matt

04/29/2012 4:29am

as a friend of mine once pointed out... "these contraptions don't even hold in water when it spills, and i'm supposed to believe that i'm safe from the microwaves??" i won't even be in the same room when one is in operation.

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WokenUp

05/01/2012 10:39am

I absolutely agree. And it does raise an eyebrow

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Sparky McBiff

04/29/2012 4:40am

Sorry but here is NO law banning microwaves in Russia.
They can be bought freely there, they're just not as popular as in the west.

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Fred Lyman

06/21/2014 4:01pm

There was a law against them from about the time of their inception (I've also heard they were invented in Russia) until the time of Perestroika when perhaps for reasons related to commerce and trade the laws were changed.
They are allowed now.
It was not a scientific trial - I changed a number of life habits around the same time - but even when I was doing lots of things right, eating well and exercising I was experiencing lots of muscle aches and joint pain and having limited success controlling my weight. Again I can't pinpoint it exactly but that has subsided over the past year, coincident with throwing away my microwave. I had quit more than a year before using it except to heat water, maybe reheat a cup of coffee I'd made the day before and refrigerated, or the occasional tortilla.I have also lost a lot of weight in the same time frame since I threw it out,
I'm sure that was helped by the 'convenience' replacement - I now eat raw fruit, nuts and veggies when I'm rushed or avoiding cooking...

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Yuckymicro

04/29/2012 7:47am

I'm throwing my microwave out as of today. I'm 30 years old and now starting to realize the importance of being healthy and eating healthy and this article makes me sick. They should be banned in Canada also. Goodbye microwave ... I won't miss it.. !

Microwaves are banned in RUSSIA, as they respect and care for their People. However, in the UK an USA microwaves are promoted, as the ZIONISTS want to kill off the People by killing of ALL the FOOD VALUE to STARVE our bodies to DEATH.

The ZIONISTS control the MEDIA and have hijacked PARLIAMENTS’ and the BANKING and JUSTICE systems of the WORLD, which you can see below: -

Video - Channel 4 UK - Broadcast November 16, 2009
Dispatches: Inside Britain's Israel Lobby
Dispatches investigates one of the most powerful and influential political lobbies in Britain, which is working in support of the interests of the State of Israel.
Political commentator Peter Oborne investigates how accountable, transparent and open to scrutiny the lobby is, particularly in regard to its funding and financial support of MPs.
Oborne examines how the lobby operates from within parliament and the tactics it employs behind the scenes when engaging with print and broadcast media.
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/33719/inside_britains_israel_lobby/

Like, David Cameron, Tony Blair was a Friend of Israel. Now you know wheo is pulling the strings and preventing Tony Blair from being brought to justice for his War Crimes and GENOCIDE.

Murdoch Shaped British politics for 40 Years
The Real News
Rupert Murdoch’s MEDIA EMPIRE has shaped and CORRUPTED British Prime Ministers, Members of Parliament, Local Governments, the MEDIA, the Police Forces and the judiciary for FIFTY-YEARS now in the UK.
http://wakeuporkney.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/murdoch-shaped-british-politics-for-40-years/

Daily Mirror: Exclusive by Bob Roberts on 15/10/2010
Row grows over David Cameron links with media baron Rupert Murdoch
But sources add Mr Cameron fears being seen as "in the pocket" of the Murdoch empire. Sky TV boss Mr Murdoch is believed to have gone into Number 10 for a 45-minute session within 24 hours of Mr Cameron becoming PM.
And his lieutenants are thought to have held at least two other meetings there in the first week of the Conservative-led administration. It has led to fears the ConDems are preparing a war on the BBC to give Sky a bigger share of the TV market.
The row comes as Mr Cameron increasingly uses Downing Street as a base to host parties for leading right-wingers.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/10/15/rupert-s-welcam-mat-115875-22635353/

The ZIONISTS have hijacked PARLIAMENTS’ and the BANKING and JUSTICE systems of the WORLD: -

There is NO justice in our courts and the complaints system in the UK now. The USA is just as bad, as it is the same ZIONIST MAFIA: -

On 6th December 1996, I was unlawfully bankrupted by a single Registrar in Chambers: = behind closed doors. There was NO record made of this sham hearing, as there is NO transcript available for this FRAME-UP. Also there was NO independent witnesses allowed in the room. I was bankrupted for £68,831.31 and HMRC had NO proof of debt whatsoever. My house was worth £230,000 and I had a £26,000 mortgage. Therefore, I should never have been bankrupted. It was ALL FRAUD and CORRUPTION: -

Report by Phillip Inman of The Guardian, Jobs & Money, Saturday May 10, 2003:
This man was right all along
Patrick Cullinane has fought a running battle with the Inland Revenue since the day he was accused of not paying income tax. And the taxman fought dirty - so dirty he lost his home and nearly lost his sanity. Now, a batch of confidential documents reveal fatal weaknesses in the Revenue's case. Phillip Inman reports
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2003/may/10/tax.scamsandfraud

The following is what Summary Justice did to me: I was on PAYE, on an Emergency Tax Code, where HMRC owed me thousands of £s in tax rebates. And they still do to this day, 29 April 2012: –
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/10/harry-redknapp-taxman-hmrc?commentpage=2#start-of-comments

Report by Phillip Inman of The Guardian, Financial Section, Monday 25 August 2008
“Evidence put to the high court shows that Cullinane, far from owing tax, was due a rebate.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/aug/25/tax.taxandspending1
The police have told me on VIDEO that the robbery of my home and possessions is a civil matter: -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPtkWWcrkjM

Magna Carta (1215) {Article 39} reads: “No free man shall be taken indeed imprisoned, either dispossessed, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, nor pass over him, nor send over him, except by means of the legal judgment of his own equals (Trial by Jury) indeed the law of the land.”
{Article 40} read

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Reseiver

05/09/2014 10:18am

Russia do NOT care for their people, they DO have microwaves. Punktum finale.

Magna Carta (1215) {Article 39} reads: “No free man shall be taken indeed imprisoned, either dispossessed, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, nor pass over him, nor send over him, except by means of the legal judgment of his own equals (Trial by Jury) indeed the law of the land.”
{Article 40} reads: “To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay Right or Justice.”
http://www.tpuc.org/Magna_Carta_1215

My life was deliberately destroyed by ONE MAN, Mr Registrar Pimm, operating a Kangaroo Court and, there is NO transcript or RECORD of his crimes, as he covered his tracks. Also, he allowed NO independent witnesses in the room. Therefore, how could justice be seen to be done?

Trial by Jury is democracy and Trial by Judge is tyranny!

The ZIONISTS MAFIA must be STOPPED.

How more corrupt can our Prime Ministers, Members of Parliament, Courts, Serious Fraud Office and Police forces get in the UK?

Full text of the Guardian editor's Orwell lecture on journalism and the phone-hacking scandal, given at University College, London

These, in the light of what we now know, were astonishing positions for the police and Britain's largest private media company to be putting on the record.

So the story was almost killed by a combination of the police and a newspaper company – both institutions supposedly dedicated to dealing in the truth – saying things which were not true.

We write stories all the time attacking councils, corporations and governments for snooping or being careless with personal data. We understand "privacy" in many other contexts. An Englishman's home is his castle and all that. But here was a newsroom blinded to the moral darkness of such intrusion when it came to their own behaviour. And, in that inability to turn a mirror on themselves, I doubt they are alone.

The eventual truth was revealed to the public, not by the police or parliament or the courts or any regulator. It was revealed by a reporter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/10/phone-hacking-truth-alan-rusbridger-orwell

Now The Guardian newspaper is left to clean-up the corrupt mess that Murdochs media empire created in EVERY Local Government and EVERY Public Service in the UK for FIFTY-YEARS.

People, you now have the incontrovertible evidence to defend yourselves against this powerful ZIONEST attack. Therefore, in your own interest and, the public interest, use this information please to expose what is happening in the WORLD.

Yours truthfully,

Patrick Cullinane.

PS. People, please sign this Petition, as it is yet another POWERFUL ATTACK on 60 Minutes to distort the TRUTH: - http://thankyou60minutes.org/

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Michael Hammer

07/07/2014 2:25am

Great information here. Yes I know our Country and most of the World is controlled by the Zionists. They are pure greed stopping at nothing to control wealth and power at all cost. Be warned! Be informed! Be brave! Fight back!

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Keith Ohler

04/29/2012 6:20pm

This is some complete BS. Microwaves operate on the principle of exciting water molecules that's all. The electomagnetic spectrum shows that microwaves have less energy than visible light so if visible light isn't killing you microwave energy sure isn't either. Russia banned microwaves because they represented a elitest product which contaminated the country with black market trade. STOP SPREADING RIDICULOUS RUMORS.

I believe your comment resonates closer to BS than this story, which is based on something called SCIENCE.

Not our fault the TV tells you otherwise and you choose to believe it.

If you would have bothered to open the PDF titled "Are Microwaves Bad?" and done some actual reading, you would have seen this:

"Protein is made up of building blocks called amino acids. These amino acids can be found in two forms: those with a levo or left-handed molecular spin (indicated by the L-suffix), and those with a dextro or right-handed molecular spin (indicated by the D-suffix). Most amino acids are toxic in their D- form, and are not generally found this way in nature. But another study from earlier this year reported that microwaving does indeed reverse the molecular spin on at least one amino acid (the only one studied), changing it from the benign L- form to the toxic D- form. This may very well be the reason behind the Swiss discovery of the immune response mounted by the body following the ingestion of microwaved foods, as well the Russian report detailing the presence of numerous carcinogenic substances in such food."

Before you type in all caps to call someone names, I suggest that as an admin you use human civility. Yes, what he said was a bit out of line and claimed without support. The above link is that support. The sources you have selected do not support the idea that microwaves = death.

Phenolic compound... does not address health effects in it's abstract. The rest of the article I do not have access to

The proven dangers... Is not a scientific study, rather it is a case. It also has nothing to do with food, but rather blood. Formula is mentioned, which seems to be due to uneven heating which can be fixed by changing power levels on microwaves.

The hidden hazards... Has no real data, though it does have references. I have not checked all of them, but the majority have broken links and the others I found have articles which I cannot view.

Do You Microwave... mentions a study, but does not let me know about this study Hans did, so I have no way of saying if he had a good control group or not.

The only credible study shown was the broccoli one, and in the Livestrong link we see that microwave has benefits in a variety of vegetables anyway.

Sorry Admin, but I do not approve of your methods

Anonymous

05/02/2012 12:23am

May I ask, if the principles work exactly the same and microwaves have less energy than visible light, why does't visible light instantaneously heat food?

Please check your science and see what microwaves really do to the food to heat it up.

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geminiprodj

09/11/2012 6:50pm

It does!!! Remember the Easy-Bake oven???

Judith A Bradley

04/29/2012 11:19pm

Anything that is easy is usually a sign it's bad , microwave ovens , convenient foods, do your homework , if it's easy don't use it ...

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Nhan Le

04/30/2012 8:06am

I am not entinrely convinced by those scientific fact listed on the reading. Please give the reference on scientific paper or research that has been done.

I have very interested in this subject for a while, and I tend to believe that there's a good chance that microwaves are creating some problems for us. However, I was surprised to see that there are no references sited on this page. I see that there are some in the pdf; are they the same sources that were used to create the list of problems above? This is important for anyone reading the article, whether they are closer to believing it or dismissing it, especially since any of this is virtually impossible to test or prove without the necessary special equipment or lab studies that most of us don't have any access to.

I like how the Green Beans catch fire in the microwave. They are so facking tasty after they are well done.

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Nick

05/07/2013 5:27am

The Admin is right, and epigenetics should be valued.

Push monsanto to the breaking point with these marches people, and lets also ban the microwaves too.

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Dimitri

06/02/2013 4:57am

As part of my home inspection protocol, when I was in this business during the last decade, I would routinely test any built-in microwave oven for functionality AND radiation "leakage" around the oven's door gasket. Over the years I must have tested several thousand of these units and I don't recall any that did not reveal some leakage. Most of them radiated unacceptable levels of leakage. I used two, sometimes three devices to verify for instrument inaccuracies. Interestingly, when informed of this in my written reports, most of the home purchasers who had engaged me to inspect the properties considered my finding about their microwave inconsequential. The few who appreciated the information were usually people who stated that they never used microwaves anyway.

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french

06/24/2013 5:33am

this stuff got translated and appeared on some french site.
i'm no scientist, and i don't know shit about microwaves.
but it's easy to spot major loopholes, the bigest being :
"In Russia, microwave ovens were banned in 1976 because of their negative health conséquences"
I mean seriously, russia never gave a shit for its ctitizen lifes in the last hundred years.
They have a small sea that's like a submarine (nuclear) cemetery.
they blowed up hundreds of nuclear bomb for testing purpose, letting their people exposed to dust, nuclear waste, etc...

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Ted

08/23/2013 12:51pm

I do have concerns about microwave ovens, but I do not accept articles without references that I can (and do) check. Telling me this stuff without backing up anything you say with references makes this article useless.

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Mike

11/02/2013 11:22am

Why in the world would someone want to donate one of these life takers to charity? So the poor people who think they've scored a great deal on it can bring it into their home and begin slowly poisoning their household? I use mine for plasma and magnetic experimentation! A machine capable of generating free plasma from certain elements, IMO shouldn't be cooking one's food!

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spon

11/28/2013 9:09am

microwaves suck

but articles without sources suck even more

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Robert Highfield

06/02/2014 9:55pm

Your stated 'facts' are not supported by the available evidence. Some have been completely scotched. Microwaving excited the water molecules, which generates heat, simple as that. As for cooked vs raw, the current thinking is that it was the commencement of eating cooked food that spawned civilisation. To eat enough raw vegetables for adequate nutrition takes all day. Cooked vegetables can supply the same in less than an hour of eating, as a great deal more nutrition is extracted. This improved food resources and created leisure time. We have been eating cooked food since before the rise of modern man, hundreds of thousands of years.
Don't state as facts things only supposed.